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Apr 12 Bendigo to Port Douglas
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Drive from Bendigo to Hanging Rock. Then on to Melbourne airport, fly to Cairns, and drive to Port Douglas. Quite a day! Our creation myth, our personal Dreamtime, is that Cynthia was working between teaching gigs for Sandy McKenzie at… Continue reading
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Apr 10 Hall’s Gap to Dreamtime
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Visit with Hanson family, tour area with Aboriginal guide. What do 1,000 cockatoos sound like in the morning right outside your window? Answer: You don’t know because you can’t think. The sound is so loud that it numbs your senses.… Continue reading
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Apr 9 Hahndorf to Hall’s Gap
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Visit Penfolds winery in Barossa Valley and drive to Halls Gap. We graze the rolling hills down to a flat plain that is baked into submission by the sun: Shiraz country. Home to Peter Lehman and Penfolds. Birthplace of The… Continue reading
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Apr 5 Port Campbell to Port Fairy
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Early visit to 12 Apostles and Loch Ard Gorge for morning views, walk on beach where shipwreck survivors landed, sleep in charming Port Fairy. We wake early and bomb back east on B100 to see Loch Ard’s spectacular rocks in… Continue reading
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Mar 28 Hobart to Strahan
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Drive Hobart to Strahan via Mt Fields National Park and ”the wall” We try to leave Michael and Ingrid’s immaculate and fascinatingly art-filled apartment as neat and tidy as it welcomed us, and we motor out of Hobart, over its… Continue reading
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Mar 18 Christchurch
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Lunch at Pegasus Bay Winery Stephen tells David that Bob the dog needs a brisk two-hour run up a nearby hill — the unspoken observation is that some of us are fast and others are not — and that Hugh… Continue reading
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Mar 14 Fox Glacier
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Heli-hike on Fox Glacier and circumnavigate Lake Matheson. We wake, dress, get caffeinated and are at the Fox Glacier Heli-hiking office a two-minute walk from our split-level rooms. We ask the Asian gal behind the counter if our 8:50… Continue reading
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Mar 12 Hokitika to Okarito
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Drive to Okarito and see a kiwi in the wild. We take forever to pack, book some kiwi hunting for the next day, gas up and leave Hokitika by 11:30, wending away from the coast and toward the foothills of… Continue reading
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Mar 11 Hokitika
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Hokitika Sunday: Carnegie building and museum, Hokitika Gorge. Hokitika: 7 a.m. kaleidoscope. Endless series of small waves froth onto the black sand under the rocky beach. A few campers … maybe hung-over Wildfoods Festival revelers … are sealed inside… Continue reading
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Mar 9 Westport / Karamea
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Tramping in Karamea with hitchhikers. David wakes and runs by 7 on a narrow path along the wide Buller River, which looks a little like the flat parts of the Shenandoah River near Great Meadows, Virginia. Weka scuttle in the… Continue reading
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Mar 7 Havelock
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Pelorus Sound mailboat run and green mussels in Havelock. Into the car by 9:10 and drove in driving rain to Havelock, the green mussel capital of New Zealand and, perhaps, the world. A small town on a bend in the… Continue reading
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Mar 1 Abel Tasman
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Early morning start. Hike one leg, kayak two legs and end at Torrent Bay. New lodgings. Cynthia’s favorite day. Although the paths are soft and full of beautiful vegetation, the hikes start to feel like a treadmill. Most are in… Continue reading
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Feb 28 Abel Tasman (Awaroa)
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Kayaking in Awaroa Inlet, hiking. David climbs the mountain behind Meadowbank Lodge at 7 am and runs much of it with a wild abandon, totally alone but for one startling encounter. Freedom and solitude give him wings and he wonders… Continue reading
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Feb 26 Wellington to Nelson
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Goodbye to Wellington, Interislander ferry to South Island and drive from Picton to Nelson. Up at 5:45 to load car, clean apartment, pick up McInerneys and get to the Interisland ferry Kaitai in time. A few predictable wrong turns… Continue reading
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Feb 18 Turangi
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Creel Lodge chill – went shopping for Advil, ibuprofen, walk by river by Judge’s Pool, used grill. After the climb and a week of travel, it was a delight to relax, do laundry, and take A leisurly stroll along the… Continue reading
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Feb 15 Waitomo
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Tour Waitomo caves. A day of spelunking for Cynthia and a day of black water tubing for David. We arrive together at 11 a.m. at Blackwater Rafting Company’s headquarters where the rather surly blonde millennial babe at the register… Continue reading
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Feb 13 Auckland
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Tour wonderful art museum and Anglican Church More gray scudding clouds with intermittent rain so Judy drives us up, down and around Auckland’s many volcanic hills to the Art Gallery, an architectural marvel made to look like kauri trees… Continue reading
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Feb 12 Auckland
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Muriwai gannet colony and beach, Mt Eden and One Tree Hill – sunny day Heavy scudding overcast but we see almost turquoise sky behind the thick clouds. So Judy drives us up, down and around Auckland’s many volcanic hills… Continue reading
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The Journey Begins
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We depart Washington Dulles Airport for Auckland. 22 hours of travel ahead. It was a beautiful day in DC. But saddened by the funeral of Ravi Shankar who touched many with his love of tennis and anyone who shared this… Continue reading
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